On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 11:41 AM, <fc...@dialup4less.com> wrote: > Environment: iPhone > > I'm particularly concerned with 'data viewing'. > Think of the data as answers to a quiz. I worry that some > hacker could copy & distribute the data (rules) on the internet, and in > essence, > cheat the game. > > Being that "... iPhone is far more restrictive towards tampering...", > Is it still possible to grab the SQLite DB file from the bundle to view its > (uncoded) data? > If not, then there's no need to encrypt the SQLite DB file within the App > Bundle.
To restate what I said in my earlier post: what you want cannot be done. Your application has encoded within it everything a hacker needs to know to decode your data. A smart hacker won't even try to decrypt the data. He'll just run your app in a debugger, let it decrypt the data itself, and then read it out of memory. Piece of cake. And yes, this applies to the iPhone just as much as it does anywhere else, as long as the hacker has jailbroken it first. Mike _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
